It's Springsteen's 10th No. 1 album, tying him with Elvis. The Beatles (19) and Jay-Z (12) are the only two with more.

And that's nice for Bruce. It's a very good record grounded in classic American song forms -- gospel, soul, Americana, anthemic rock -- and giving a satellite view of a wrecked dream before finding some peace and hope in shared history and sacrifice.

Likely Adele will be back on top next week as that album remains the most muscular commercial force the music business has seen in some time. We don't tend to spend a lot of time with charts around here, because records come and go fast. Andrew Bird hit No. 10 this week after moving 30,000 copies of "Break It Yourself." That's the best sales week of his career.

Springsteen's total isn't close to the best week of his career, and the overall numbers are the same. And though I'm not sure this needs to be written at this point, the reason isn't because people aren't listening to music, it's because they're listening to it differently.

So this release from Billboard this morning is moderately interesting -- at least as interesting as dollar signs get.

Billboard, Nielsen and NARM's digitalmusic.org announced today the launch of
the first-ever subscription services "On-Demand Songs" chart, and that this
data will also be included in the Billboard Hot 100, the preeminent singles
chart in the United States. On-demand streaming data is now factored into the
chart's ranking, enhancing a formula that includes digital download track sales
and physical singles sales, as tracked by Nielsen SoundScan; as well as radio
airplay and other streaming services, as tracked by Nielsen BDS.